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S&T:Chapter 1
| Term | Deffenition |
|---|---|
| Science | A way oflearning about the natural world through observations and logical reasoning; leads to a body of knowledge. |
| Observing | The process of using one or more of your senses to gather informaton |
| Quantating opservation | an observation that deals with characteristics that cannot be expressed in numbers |
| Qualative observation | An observation that deals with a number or ammount |
| inferring | The process of making an inference an interpretation based on observations and prior knowlege |
| predicting | the process of forcasting what will happen in the future based on evidence and experiance |
| classififying | the process of grouping together items that are alike in a way |
| evaluating | comparing observation and data to reach another conclusion about them |
| making models | the process of creating representations of complex objects or processes |
| skeptism | an attitude of doubt |
| ethics | the rules that help people to know right from wrong |
| personal bias | outlook from a persons likes and dislikes |
| cultural bias | an outlook influenced by the beliefs social forms and traits of a group |
| experimental bias | a mistake in the design of an experiment that makes a particular result more likely |
| objective | describes a act of desision making or drawing conclusions based on available evidence |
| subjective | describe the influence of personal feelings on a desision or conclusion |
| deductive reasoning | a way to explain things by starting with general idea to secpific observation |
| inductive reasoning | Useing secpific observations to make generlizations |
| scientific inquiry | The ongoing process of discovery in science; the diverse ways in which scientists study the natural worldand propose explanations based on evidence they gather together. |
| hypothesis | A possible explanation for a set of observations or awnser to a sespific question or awnser to ba sespific question must be testable |
| variable | A factor that can change an experiment |
| manipulated variable | The one factor that a scientist changes during a experiment also called independant variable |
| responding variable | the factor that changes as a result of changes to the munipulated or independant variable in a experiment also called a dependant variable |
| controlled experiment | an experiment in which only one variable is manipulated at a time |
| data | Fact figures and other evidence gathered through observations |
| scientific inquiry | The ongoing process of descoveru in science the diverse ways in which scientists study the natural world and propose explanations based on evidence they gather |
| scientific law | a statement that describes what scientists expect to happen every time under a particular set of conditions |
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